Hendrik Kleinwächter · AI Advisory & Engineering · Hamburg
Vom AI-Hype zum laufenden System: a time-boxed path from Discovery to a working proof of concept to a team that runs it without me. No retainer. No slideware. A measured result.
Free, no slides, no obligation — a direct conversation about your situation.
AI sparring partner for C-level executives — and the engineer who ships the first system. Every engagement is time-boxed, has a defined deliverable, and ends with a handover. I don't sell retainers. I make myself unnecessary.
Where does AI actually pay off in your company? We sit down together — your processes, your data, your risk appetite — and rank the use cases worth building. You get a written assessment of your systems, a prioritized shortlist, and one POC candidate scoped to be buildable. Not a 200-page deck.
I build the first proof of concept myself — production quality, on your data, with the technology that fits your business and your existing IT landscape. Not a demo video — a system your team can log into. We define the success metric before I write a line of code, and we measure it on the POC. I won't promise you a blanket savings percentage; I'll give you a number you can verify.
Your people learn to run, extend, and govern the system: working sessions with the C-level on where to take AI next, and hands-on training for your developers in the tools I used to build it. When I leave, the capability stays.
Some call this a fractional AI CTO. The difference: my engagements are time-boxed and end with your team in the driver's seat — not with a retainer.
Each package has its own page: how the three packages fit together →
I've been shipping software for 20 years and building with LLMs since 2023 — 50+ AI applications in production. As CTO at AHEAD Automotive I built a RAG diagnostic platform used by more than 50,000 mechanics. I've founded three startups; one was acquired by trivago. I know the difference between a demo and a system that survives contact with real users.
That's the whole pitch: I'm not a strategy consultant who hands you a deck, and I'm not a dev shop you have to translate for. I sit down with you, we decide what's worth building, and then I build it.
On the side I run The Bread Code, a YouTube channel with 300,000+ subscribers about the engineering of sourdough bread. It taught me the skill this work actually requires: making complicated things simple enough to act on.
AI sparring partner for C-level executives — and the engineer who ships the first system. Time-boxed Discovery → POC → Enablement engagements. Hamburg and remote across Europe.
Built a RAG diagnostic platform that shipped to production: 50,000+ mechanics as users, processing 2M+ queries/month. Read the case study.
A YouTube channel with 300,000+ subscribers about the engineering of sourdough bread — proof that I can make a hard technical subject simple enough to act on.
Personalized-travel platform, founded in Hamburg, acquired by trivago in 2017 (covered by Handelsblatt). Read the case study.
Free, no slides, no obligation — a direct conversation about your situation.
Or write me — you'll get a personal reply from me — no agency, no sales team.